Hello All,
As many of you may know, I am a nutrition instructor for Refugee Focus. We teach women's nutriton classes and teach the women how to read food labels, understand food portions, guidance on how to save money when shopping healthy, and teach them about food related diseases. Last Friday, we held a cooking class centered around diabetes. For those of you who do not know, diabetes kills more people per year than AIDS!
We reserved the kitchen at Taylor Place (which is very nice!), and held the cooking class there. We made a vegetarian style stew, with brown rice that was cooked with diced onion and chicken broth. This event was such a great success! The women absolutely loved the class, and fell in love with our mini dark chocolate covered bananas and baked sweet potato fries. Since rice is a staple food for many cultures, we did an education piece on how certain rices (mainly white) are large contributors to diabetes. Shea and I always spoke about becoming a leader in our community, and I was so sad that she was not there to enjoy this victory. If anyone would like to become a volunteer instructor, please let me know! We would love the extra help.
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